Honoré d´O / Franciska Lambrechts

Honoré d' O breaks down the borders between art and daily life with his installations. Art and life are one and the same thing. His works of art are ordinary, everyday objects and the spectator is the artist.

Honoré d' O always uses easily recognizable materials and existing objects. These he combines to form a single composition in a surprising manner that requires no technological ingenuity. His finds grow while he works; something around him attracts his attention and he incorporates it into his sculptural composition. By giving it our time and attention, we the spectators complete the work of art. Indeed, the visitor's interaction is very important to Honoré d' O. Every spectator approaches Honoré's art in a different way; it can be seen from different angles, it elicits different opinions. The spectator is himself a moving particle in the composition. There is certainly no univocality about Honoré's art, no single way of interpreting it; there is nothing definite orclear-cut about his art, it is not a fait accompli. Neither is there any of the traditional distance between sculpture and spectator. The people who come and go complete the work, the public is part of the art.

Sometimes the visitor can actually interfere with the work, he can roll a marble, for example, activate sounds or move objects around.

The work and life exist by grace of the visitor. Honoré's art world is chaos, it is full of complexity and relationships. The spectator stands in a landscape that presents numerous possibilities in terms of subject matter. Art and life are constantly brought together. Art is a single entity but consists of different parts, each of which also has a meaning of its own. By following a trail that leads from one installation to another, the visitor is part of that overall picture.

The two artists are creating sculptural elements in Middelheim Park, based on the following themes: - a hunting tower - a sort of tree vibrator - a systematically mowed stretch of grass

Honoré d'O is assisted by video artist Franciska Lambrechts. The video element is actually part of a larger entity. An underlying concept from which the work can be understood attaches to the word ‘civil war', which serves as a kind of working title.

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Honoré d´O and Franciska Lambrechts